Citation

Smolkowski K, Biglan A, Barrera M, Taylor T, Black C, Blair J. Prev. Sci. 2005; 6(2): 113-125.

Affiliation

Center for Community Interventions on Childrearing, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1983, USA. keiths@ori.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15889626

Abstract

This paper reports a randomized controlled trial of the effects of behavioral parenting skills training, social skills training, and supplemental reading instruction on the social behavior of early elementary school children (K through 3). We selected children based on teacher-rated aggressive behavior or reading-skill deficits, delivered the intervention over a 2-year period, and obtained follow-up data for two additional years. The intervention affected only two of eight measures of child functioning--parent daily reports of antisocial behavior and parent ratings of coercive behavior. There was evidence that parents of boys in the intervention condition displayed significantly greater declines in their rated use of coercive discipline than did parents of boys in the control condition.

Language: en